SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Armed takeovers put Native protesters on trial in Janklow’s South Dakota
This week in South Dakota history: July 25-31
Five men escaped from the Charles Mix County Jail 50 years ago this week, just months after they were arrested for an armed takeover of a pork processing plant on the Yankton Sioux Reservation.
Four of them were back in custody three days later.
Their story began with a protest, a broken promise of economic opportunity and a growing Native American rights movement that would collide with a rising political force in South Dakota: Attorney General Bill Janklow.
